Help! I have a book full of animal puzzles. When I scan them into Lightburn and trace them, some of the fatter lines are interpreted as multiple lines instead of a single line. Is there a built-in command that helps with this?
All traced images in LightBurn will have at least one pair of lines. The printed, scanned or downloaded images will always have thickness, unless created with a program that uses an appropriate format (such as LightBurn or Inkscape.
Inkscape purports to have centerline trace, which attempts to remove the double line problem, but in the case of three segments joining at a single point, the solution is ambiguous and requires operator intervention.
Your animal puzzles will require either manipulation in LightBurn by deleting select shapes, or will require Inkscape centerline management.
Fred, thank you for this reply. I don’t have Inkscape, but I do have photoshop. Would this have “centerline trace”?
photoshop is a raster editor, not a vector editor. You’d have to use Illustrator if you have that, but a quick internet search doesn’t show much promise for centerline trace associated with Illustrator. On the flip side, Inkscape is free, multi-platform and might be a bit challenging to use, but your focus is a single task and you’ll probably find plenty of tutorials to accomplish your goal. You’ll still have a good bit of manual effort, to deal with multiple lines at a single location.
If you care to aggregate your LightBurn files and attach them, I’ll take a shot at them.
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